Top 20 Jay Michaelson Quotes

#1. There's no path to liberation that doesn't pass through the shadow.

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#2. We in the Jewish community are comparatively lucky. All of traditions have anti-gay pieces but the Jewish tradition doesn't have as many anti-sexuality and anti-body teachings. It's a lot easier to fit affirmation of sexuality and gender.

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#3. Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you're the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you're not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.

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#4. The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.

James F. Cooper

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#5. Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.

Theodore Parker

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#6. At the last stages of the journey, there's no journey at all.

Jay Michaelson

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#7. I was raised a nice Jewish boy in a Conservative household. Went to Camp Ramah. It's funny actually. I think I enacted my queerness there unconsciously. I was kind of one of the weirdos. I was on staff and definitely interested in alternatives to what that social structure was supposed to be.

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#8. Part of why I love these angry, straight, white punks is that they are stripping the dharma of its bullshit, and applying it to contexts and styles that, even if they aren't mine, are at least different from the norm.

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#9. All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears.

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#10. We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesn't cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a distinctly 'unnatural' way, so that the mind clings less and lets go more.

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#11. What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.

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#12. The Buddha's dharma didn't teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening - often rude awakening.

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#13. To me, God is a name that humans give to all that is. Experientially, it is whatever is left over when the delusion of the self is taken away.

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#14. I've thought about the pictures often; what they show or, more accurately, don't show. Remembering what was happening elsewhere: in the distance, or behind the camera, off to one side.

Harriet Lane

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#15. It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a directly apprehended reality.

Jay Michaelson

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#16. Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid rejection

Nir Eyal

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#17. And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured
Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it.

T. S. Eliot

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#18. People should support equality because of their religion not despite it. These are the values that openness, inclusion, diversity promote. And they're directly opposed to the kind of enforced closet of certain interpretations of religion.

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#19. My life is not nuts. I hardly ever watch television, I don't go out very much, so I don't really know what's going on.

Sophie Okonedo

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#20. I thought that coming out was going to be the end of my religious life but actually it was the beginning. Because it only afterwards that I could be honest about who I was, what I wanted, how I understood spirituality.

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